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Talking about rough on human resources, I take it you've never written iterative Krylov methods where matrices are in compressed sparse row (CSR) format?

Because that's the kind of mental model capacity scientific programmers needed to have back in the days. People still do similarly brain-twisting things today. In this context, converting your logic between C and Fortran to avoid shuffling data is trivial.
Apple often buys their entire capacity (of a process) for quite a while.
360 + Gears of War was the best time in gaming.

Look what they have done to Gears as well. Nobody even knows or hears anything about it anymore.
They are referring to integrated npus in current cpus like in the intel cote ultra.

They explicitly mentioned in the event that the industry refers to the neural engine as a NPU
I can tell you having been responsible for the aspects of a TINY scale in comparison button, about 30,000 units a year, that buttons are fucking hard man! It's so much harder to make a button than an entire PCB. You wouldn't think so, but you need to be GOOD at injection molding, stresses, DFM (design for manufacturing), cost analysis, generally know ALL the options to produce something, production tolerances and more just to talk to the actual experts in those fields.

Other poster is correct, it's a big deal, and it's why screens have replaced buttons in cars. It's so much cheaper to make a screen. Which is funny because as an EE, I judge a new vehicle first by how many buttons they still have.
That does seem to be the case:

https://www.apple.com/shop/select-apple-pencil

I don't see any real reason to upgrade from my M1 iPad Pro anyway, but that's disappointing.
California Forever Or, the Aesthetics of AI Images
The craziest thing to me is that at my location not that many people did the free workout classes. Between those classes and the food I was in the best shape of my life while working there.

I steadily got in better shape as they kept cancelling the projects I worked on and I slowly lost and sort of will to care about my actual job. The quality of my work ended up suffering a lot as I realized just how pointless trying to work there was for me but the pay was too good to want to leave.

Edit: I was unlucky though. I knew some people with more stable projects. I went through 4 cancelled projects in close to 6 years
Definitely misleading but they’re talking about “AI CPU” rather than GPUs. They’re pretty much taking a jab at Intel.
Just give us support for virtualization and we could install Linux on it and use it for development.
It's crashing here. I can't find where to send bug reports.
The chairs look comfy, better than standard government issue, and they're on tracks so you don't have to get up to check on the equipment.
Would it be possible to code on this?

I’m looking for an alternative to sitting at a desk all day.
Unlike the pessimists on here, I hope Wayve AI does well.

We need more Autonomous Mobility startups, especially because most foundational model players are increasingly being acquired.

Having a couple dedicated foundational model firms can allow additional players in the automotive space to form.

Also, Wayve AI seems to be split between London, MTV, and Vancouver.
You can make double or triple that in total compensation at the staff or principal level in the Bay Area.

I'm not saying these jobs are easy, or easy to get, but yes, they exist, even in this market.

The reality is the biggest drop-off in recruiting is at the very top of the funnel. Your basic phone screen and first technical screen -- before you get to a full panel. Once there you have way more, qualified, applicants than roles. I'm not sure it really matters which person gets the job, and this is one way you can make a fairly arbitrary decision. It's nice because it's within your control to grind some leetcode lol. From the company's perspective it's fair and has limited negative selection risk, and doesn't lead to as many regrettable hires.

If you've got 100 great candidates and 1 role, does it really matter which great candidate gets the job, so long as the selection process is relatively fair and uniform? From the company's perspective, probably not.

Since there's no feasible way to select the local maxima, the second sort is consistency.
I work for the National Solar Observatory, creating Level 2 data for the DKIST Telescope’s observations of the sun. (For example, an image of the Temperature that lines up with the observation)

Just the other day, the solar physicist I work with said “yeah, that code that runs on the supercomputer needs to be rewritten in Fortran” (from C, I think.

He’s nearing retirement, but it’s not that he’s behind the times. He knows his stuff, and has a lot of software experience in addition to physics
They're bold enough to say they're carbon neutral.

"Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon neutral across the entire manufacturing supply chain and life cycle of every product."
Watching this site recover after an Apple press release is like watching the world leaders deliberate Dr. Strangelove's suggestions.
Eh, they compared the M3 to the M1 when they launched it. People grumbled and then went on with their lives. I don't think they'd use that as a reason for making actual product decisions.
Have you ever been hired by a company you refused to do the coding interview for?
> A recent statistic for a major city: 40% of homes are unoccupied.

[citation needed]
The signs certainly all point to the initial version of N3 having issues.

For instance, Apple supposedly required a deal where they only paid TSMC for usable chips per N3 wafer, and not for the entire wafer.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/report-apple-is-savi...
I think there’s also some other pretty big field that tends to put the vector on the left… statistics? Economics? For some reason I couldn’t find any links, so maybe I just got this from, like, one random statistician. If only they’d told me about sample sizes.
"LLM ops is not ops if you are using OpenAI"

Even if you've plugged in OpenAI, there's a lot of ops work that goes into monitoring and managing output quality, reliability, and continuous improvements at scale.
My guess is that because of the success of Fallout show Microsoft is trying to spin up resources to make another Fallout game as soon as possible while also keeping Elder Scrolls moving forward. Bethesda has always been a one game studio, but perhaps they will try to hire up to become a two game studio or they could go beef up Obsidian to pivot into a Fallout New Vegas to or other non-numbered Fallout game.

The casualties of this are two financially under performing studios.
> Due to the hash functions being one-way, we cannot derive your data back from the hash

This isn't true in practice. It's not hard to build a big list of ~every email address (give or take), and have a GPU churn through them all until you get a match.

If you've ever received a spam email, your email address is on such a list.
TikTok Sues U.S. Government over Law Forcing Sale or Ban
I highly recommend doing pull-ups for your posture and health. It was shocking to me how much the state of my spine improved after doing pull-ups as a daily exercise.
Right, these laws absolutely should change. I would hope that any municipality facing a problem like this, with lots of empty office space, would also recognize the fact that their zoning rules are a bad idea.
When you get sort-off fluent in Rails, it's astonishing how quick you can go from an idea to product. It took me a couple of days before I started getting the hang of it, the docs and its website is incredibly well done. And when you get stuck on something, rest assured someone else on the web has experienced the same issue.
If you lived in San Francisco in ~2014 there was a definite startup/social media bubble. So many calendar apps. So many email apps. So many ways to "share with friends" that made no money. Millions and millions invested (wasted) lol A lot of us laughed back then and we were ultimately right about it being a funding bubble. But this is just how it works. Something is successful, everyone copies it but is usually not successful - but sometimes there is some success. So they cast a wide net, scoop up what works, leave everything else behind. It's bubbly behavior but that's how the economy "breathes" by expanding and contracting. It ultimately adds growth.

There was also a real estate bubble in the early 00s with their 0-money-down loans, infinite refis, the "good faith estimate" - they were throwing money (houses) at people because middlemen could make a lot of money off selling loans. We all know about the burst, but few talk about the fact that the big banks took over those businesses, forcing them to shut down and acquired all their assets - they scooped up what worked and left everything else behind.

It seems like every presidential cycle there's some industry or space getting all the focus and funding. This current one - Trump/Biden - was the weirdest one, we had a brief crypto bubble, but it's been mostly Old Money paying themselves through government and politics (covid, wars, "keep the government running by printing $1T" type bills). I imagine the next president will "save us" from the political bubble and embrace technology, in particular AI/LLMs. The major corporations have to get a handle on AI, so I predict a lot of money will be thrown at AI/LLMs - we're just getting started. I think we have 8 years of AI bubble ahead of us.
It takes more than a fluent speaker to write good literature. And that's the rub - you need someone who is themselves capable of writing good literature, regardless of whether it's original or a translation of an existing work.
Coca-cola is a type of soda so... I think you're agreeing with me? Kind of hard to tell.
They'll definitely hate to hear it. I agree, why am I empathizing with the sociopath class?
> Now on a team of many OG Googlers (15+ years tenure) and Design Docs only exist when they’re needed

This almost certainly has nothing to do with the team or tenure, but everything to do with what levels they are(n't) trying to get promoted to. Have you controlled for that and still seen a distinction?
We had a community of 10 million extremely talented and hardworking people illegally building houses for $4 an hour. It's beyond me to comprehend the moral valence of our decision, starting in 2016, to remove this group from the labor force- it was definitely unethical to deport them, it was definitely unethical to exploit them. Practically speaking though, I don't know why anyone's shocked that afterwards the price to build a home skyrocketed.
Far too small and not enough blinkenlights for 1950s SF.
Related (but tiny):

Petalisp: A DSL in CL intended for high performance array-based computing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17170393 - May 2018 (1 comment)
> Renting IS throwing money away if your goal is to maximize wealth

I never said that was my goal.

> To try and claim you're generating more wealth by renting just isn't true.

I never claimed this. I have rented and I have generated wealth, however.

> To be suspicious of everyone who makes such a mild claim is a microchasm of why the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

It's usually because these people refuse to believe there's any benefit to renting and jump to conclusions and claim I said things I never said.

I wonder if I can find an example of such a situation?
sure, you can expose your workstation with a vscode tunnel and access stuff via the web.
Yes and no. Lots of new residential can save downtowns. Just build new residential however. It's not that much more expensive. The existing office can continue to be used as commercial real estate, especially by the new residents.

Together, this will help create walkable, vibrant downtown with no need for a car to commute to work. The only thing preventing this is zoning, which currently bans most new residential.
If its advertised like a general purpose computer, expectations should be met.
Not really. But you can remote into a real computer.
Google co-funding guaranteed basic income trial to give families $12,000 a year
Not sure I understand the differentiation you're making between feature vs product. Perhaps startups start out as a "feature" but then build a full product around it. This path seems common and reasonable, given the very limited resources of a typical startup.
> If you can explain redness fully in terms of physical systems and processes, then somebody having that firsthand experience for the first time shouldn't be thinking "oh, so that's what it is like to actually see red."

I mean, I think I totally agree here. It's just that I think a "full" explanation would be able to include a description of "what it is like". And that somebody having the firsthand experience would think "Yup, that matches what I read it would be like". The cynical side of me feels that people who deny this will ever be possible are being a little pessimistic or unambitious.

> You should also know what it is like to have experiences that your brain doesn't have the hardware for, like a bat's experience of echolocation.

I don't think that this necessarily follows. The hardware defines limits to what an individual can understand. I will never have a full understanding of the location and velocity of every atom in the universe - even if in principle a physical description of it could exist - because my brain's hardware is insufficient to represent the model. Likewise I cannot expect a human to know what it's like to have a bat's experiences. But there could in principle be a super AI that can understand both human and bat experiences.
What is the meme behind this reference: "I am Jack's endless disappointment"?

I searched the web but still unclear.
A bit disappointed that it seems like the Live Multicam is iPad only. Unless they are just glossing over its addition to Mac.

I was hoping we would keep feature parity between the 2, or at least Mac having everything and iPad a subset. Unless I am mistaken I think this is the first iPad only feature?
I think it would depend on there being bits for the iPad to track where the tip is for it to work well. Kinda funny that Apple calls their stylus a Pencil and lack this functionality while the Surface and Wacom "Pens" do.
> It used to be that if you sold one house and bought another for same price then there would be no appreciation taxes, but that stopped a few(?) years ago.

If you're referring to Section 1031 exchanges in the US, that never applied to houses you actually live in, only investment properties (and it still does).
To reach the "Microsoft or Nvidia" lead round phase, you need an ecosystem of angel, seed, and early stage investors. This doesn't exist in much of mainland Europe, as that entire ecosystem has been in London for decades, and the entrepreneurship space is fundamentally power law driven.
Yes, it's the frequency and also the amplitude that makes it faster. One could use a lab agitator but it would still be too slow. I think if you pour the water into an ultrasonic cleaner along with the coffee and filter the mix you might get the same result.
>the harder you press, the more bitter it will come out

Huh? I don't plunge until after it brews, and the purpose of the plunge is just to keep the water out of the grounds from that point forward, to (essentially) stop the brewing process. Or so I thought
Ugh, finally. And it's not just a repurposed desktop memory standard either! The overall space requirements look to be similar to the BGA that you'd normally solder on (perhaps 2-3x as thick?). I'm sure they can reduce that overhead going forward.

I love the disclosure at the bottom:

Full Disclosure: iFixit has prior business relationships with both Micron and Lenovo, and we are hopelessly biased in favor of repairable products.
I'm curious, how many folks are using Final Cut Pro nowadays?

It seems like all you hear about these days is people using Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, but I'm not in the industry.
Does anyone know how the full width of the carriageway gets surfaced in this setup? Perhaps lane closures on the left/right side (sequentially) after the centre portion has been resurfaced?
>None of that is possible without massive changes to the structure of the building.

This is addressed in TFA. There was one building the profiled architect designed where they spent the $$ to turn the elevator core into a courtyard. He was able to add back the "lost" square footage as additional floors, which made the project profitable enough to build out.
Good suggestion, I was planing it as an optional option. We can crawl some github repos, and extract most types, extract their class names, paths, fields names, and use such data as the corpus
To be honest, I wish my iPad's chip was slower! I can't do anything other than watch videos and use drawing programs on an iPad, why does it need a big expensive power hungry and environmentally impactful CPU when one 1/10 the speed would do?

If I could actually do something with an iPad there would be a different discussion, but the operating system is so incredibly gimped that the most demanding task it's really suited for is .. decoding video.
The home button was a nice UI affordance, but it tended to fail after a few years. Every old iPhone and iPad that my parents used had home buttons that didn't click correctly - an minor annoyance in the years where upgrading your phone every two years was normal, but not for the present where people keep their devices for much longer, especially iPads with a much bigger battery.

I never had a device with the solid-state home buttons (like the iPhone 7 and 8), but I assume these were not an option due to cost.
I appreciate the steel-man. A strong counter argument for me is that you actually can run any custom code on an iPad, as long as it's in a web-browser. This is very unlike an appliance where doing so is not possible. Clearly the intention is for arbitrary custom code to run on it, which makes it a personal computer and not an appliance (and should be regulated as such).
You are shifting goals, from the population growth to the fertility rate. Indeed some countries more that others are growing because of the migration and not fertility. Also that's not a new phenomena at all.
All that doesn't negate the fact of the population growth.
As a consequence of that growth we need more housing, and that's not happening in a needed rate.
Doesn't California pay way more for energy than other states? Not sure it makes sense to look at what they're doing and call it the future. It would be nice if it were free but the cost is something like double neighboring states.
Now that there's the 13 inch iPad I am praying they remove the display notch on the Macbooks. It's a little wacky when you've intentionally cut a hole out of your laptop screen just to make it look like your phones did 2 generations ago and now you sell a tablet with the same screen size without that hole.
but they can't describe their life as efficient or ecological since that's definitively not the case

This is absolutely true.

Problem is living in a suburb is even less efficient and even less ecological than living in a city. That's kind of the issue.

It's kind of like what they say about democracy. Living in a city is the worst way to live on this planet, except for all the others.
The Human Factors of Formal Methods – Shriram Krishnamurthi – Stanford Seminar [video]
The amount of layoffs the last two years is ridiculous.

My company just laid off 35 people (150ish employees) and gave them a whopping 2 weeks severance for each year that they worked there. Most of the people let go had only worked here for 1-2 years. Engineers and QA.

I was shocked when I heard that because I've always seen it as a great place to work and very forward thinking. That wasn't publicly disclosed, of course, I heard it from a manager coworker/friend.

Now I'm petrified.
I think this isn't necessarily true for a company environment though. If a tool is useful and is made the "official" solution for some problem, people will be forced to learn how to use it. Example: Jira. It has lot of complex structure and it can take quite a while to understand just a fraction of its features, but a lot of companies use it. (Granted, most people don't use or need all of its features.)
Yeah they even gloss over Lenovo's crappy soldered on the motherboard USB-C connectors which is always the weak point on modern thinkpads. Well that and Digital River (Lenovo's distributor) carries absolutely no spare parts at all for any Lenovos in Europe, and if they do they only rarely turn up, so you can't replace any replaceable bits because you can't get any.
How do such emails get leaked. Since the email is from top management with just few recipients, wouldn’t it be easy to find the leaker. Testing done of these private emails scares me a bit. If such top secret emails can be leaked, how about private citizens like me.
I'm not sure if it's appropriate to speculate here, but I would assume being conjoined means your endocrine systems are at least partially connected, which is rough if you wanted to start hormone replacement therapy but your conjoined twin understandably did not. In any case, good on him for coming out and being himself.

Also, re. the questions Lori and George always got about separation, I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Laleh and Ladan Bijani, cranially conjoined twins who tried separation surgery in adulthood and both died :( They were clearly aware of the risks, and it was their choice to make, but still super sad.
I'd be curious to investigate this; do you have many tens of thousands of unread messages in the Lean community, or is it a new account?

I ask because we have a known issue in Zulip that the first minute or two of using the product is quite slow for folks with 100K for unread messages because it the web app's client-side data fetching system ends up fetching them all in order to make clicking around the app afterwards extremely snappy.

We've reworked that system over the last few months, and it'll be deployed to Zulip Cloud next week if all goes well. But if you don't have a lot of unread messages, I'd very much like to understand why -- I'd love for you to stop by chat.zulip.org and debug with us a bit if you can spare a bit of time.

(It could be that the Lean community Zulip involves rendering a LOT of LaTeX, for example)
Local multinational has its UK headquarters in a nearby town here in England. It's considering moving its HQ to a city 40 miles away, despite the extra cost, because it can't get trained staff.

Doesn't help that the town is in a train desert.

Rural England (which is not exactly Rural by US or even France standards) suffers from a self-perpetuating brain drain. Unless you're on a commuter line into a city.
Maybe I'm just having a low-caffeine day, but I spent the whole article waiting for it to explain what it means for George to refuse to be separated from conjoined Lori who has now died, and what's going to be done about it. To save anyone else the time before facepalm, they both died last month aged 62.

(In defence against seeming a complete idiot, with the way they were conjoined it's not totally obvious, to a layman anyway, that there would be too much shared for one to survive the other. Plus surgeons obviously thought separation possible.)
CPU is not the only way that power is consumed in a portable device. It is a large fraction, but you also have displays and radios.